On Mar 8, Perry E. Metzger wrote
> 
> For this sort of thing, you don't want to use real "random". Better to 
> use something based on a good PRNG. Also, when doing stuff like this,
> it is often convenient to be able to debug by getting the same random
> data multiple times, thus the need for specifying a PRNG and a seed.
> 

Well, so this is a point for using a C program which would use
srandom()/random().  The seed could be passed on the command line, a shell
script or a makefile could use 'date +%s' or 'date +%S' to generate the seed.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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